If Houston were the ocean, the city’s public works department would be the giant squid: It lives deep, where few people can see it; only occasionally does it wash ashore to scare people; and it’s capable of grasping anything it wants and dragging it down into a morass of darkness and slow, agonizing death. The department, […]
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When city planning and elected officials get a look at proposed changes for Houston’s street designations and plans, some will look familiar. A handful of proposed street designation changes proposed last year that were nixed by planning commissioners will get a second look as part of this year’s major thoroughfare and freeway plan amendment process. […]
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State transportation officials Thursday opened the final bid out of more than a dozen for work related to the massive widening of U.S. 290, with a familiar company submitting the apparent low bid. Williams Brothers Construction bid $60.1 million to widen U.S. 290 to three lanes and two frontage lanes in each direction from Badtke Road to […]
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As discussed Monday, the challenge to solving some of the flooding woes along Houston area freeways is a matter of more drainage, which means more costs. “The bottom line is the freeway systems have some low spots and the cost to fix that is enormous,” said D. Wayne Klotz, president of Houston engineering firm Klotz and […]
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Drivers who struggle daily with U.S. 290 congestion might groan when they think about it, but more construction is coming their way. Williams Brothers Construction, one of the area’s largest road builders, won the contracts for two more segments of U.S. 290 last week. Combined, the company’s bids for the two widening jobs total $70.3 […]
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As reported Thursday, Midtown Management District officials opted for a rather colorful safety upgrade to the intersection of Elgin and Louisiana. Part art project, part visual cue for drivers, the crosswalks designed by artist Aaron Parazette are a pilot for the management district, which hopes to put others around the spots popular with pedestrians and bicyclists. […]
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It’s no surprise what could turn out to be Houston’s largest freeway project ever continues to generate debate, though the public meetings for this round are over. Texas Department of Transportation officials last month laid out the plan for a $6 billion-plus redesign of Interstate 45 from the Sam Houston Tollway near Bush Airport through […]
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Public meetings meant to debut the massive plan to remake Houston’s downtown freeway system might be coming to an end, but it’s hardly the last chance residents will have to poke and prod the plans. Years of work remain on the $6 billion-plus project that shifts Interstate 45 to the east side of the central […]
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